Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion pre...
“Rather, the guiding idea is that the principle of justice for the basic structure of society are the objects of the original agreement. They are the principles that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality as defining th...
Kavka, Gregory S. (1991), An Internal Critique of Nozick's Entitlement Theory, in: J.Angelo Corlett, eds., Equality and Li- berty, Analyzing Rawls and Nozick, Houndmills and London: Macmillan, 298-310Kavka, G. `An Internal Critique of Nozick's Entitlement Theory', Pacific Philosoph- ...
Robert Nozick's Moral and Political Theory: A Philosophical Critique of Libertarianism This book examines the foundation and formation of Robert Nozick's libertarianism. Nozick's "Anarchy, State and Utopia" is still very much influential today among right-wing libertarians who are either engaged in...
of the kind of liberalism represented by his Harvard colleague, JohnRawls. Nozick's first book,Anarchy, State, and Utopia(1974; National Book Award), a critique of Rawls, has became a key work in contemporary political philosophy. Castigating the paternalism of the welfare state, supporting ...
Nozick sees the private ownership as the natural result of the principle (he regards it as self-ownership), Rawls shares the position with Nozick, but improve it with "justice as fairness" which combines the principle of justice with the principle called beyond justice. Both Nozick and Rawls ...
Fowler, Mark `Stability and Utopia; A Critique of Nozick's Framework Argument' in Corlett, J. Angelo (ed.) Equality and Liberty: Analyzing Rawls and Nozick, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991FOWLER, M. Stability and Utopia: A Critique of Nozick's Framework Argu- ment. Ethics ...
(1991), An Internal Critique of Nozick's Entitlement Theory, in: J.Angelo Corlett, eds., Equality and Li- berty, Analyzing Rawls and Nozick, Houndmills and London: Macmillan, 298-310Kavka, G. `An Internal Critique of Nozick's Entitlement Theory', Pacific Philosoph- ical Quarterly, 63 (...
In this dissertation, I provide a critical outline of Robert Nozick's "theory" of the state and justice, which he presented in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick, then a libertarian, developed an intriguing and thoughtful critique of mainstream liberal theories, m...
His critique to Rawls mostly results from misunderstanding and avoidance to Rawls' problems.The real dilemma of Rawls' theory is his metaphysical argument about " the difference principle".Only when we give up this road and transfer our theoretical horizon to the Aristotle-Marx approach,and base ...